behavior or action that acts upon prejudice.  

relaxing when around others because they can’t be evaluated; they do better on complex tasks and worse on simple tasks.

leaders who inspire followers to focus on common, long-term goals.

a leader who is concerned more with getting the job done than with workers’ feelings and relationships.

loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people can’t be identified (such as when they are in a crowd)

expectation that helping others will increase likelihood of being helped ourselves in the future.

idea that people’s feelings about a relationship depend on their perceptions of the reward and costs of the relationship, the kind of relationship they deserve, and their chances of having a better relationship with someone else.  (relationships/how people feel about their relationships)

suppression of attachment needs (attempts to be intimate have been rebuffed); people with this style find it difficult to develop intimate relationships.

concern that others will not reciprocate one’s desire for intimacy, resulting in higher-than-average levels of anxiety.

trust, a lack of concerned with being abandoned, and the view that one is worthy and well liked.

?Believed that aggressive energy must come out somehow, lest it continue to build up and produce illness. (Hydraulic theory: analogy is to water pressure building up in a container; unless released, it will produce some sort of explosion.

idea that frustration—the perception that you are being prevented from attaining a goal—increases the probability of an aggressive response.

“blowing off steam” or watching aggressive behavior, etc. will help you deal with your aggressive behavior. (kind of like “talking out” theory that hypothesized “blow off steam” etc.)

We learn social behavior (i.e. aggression) by observing others and imitating them. (trying to explain aggression)

(terms and are they the same? NO, what is the difference? Prejudice is an attitude, Discrimination is action/behavior. Do the two always coincide? Not always, a lot of times but not necessarily. One of the reasons they don’t go together is “social norms”)

idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination.

tendency to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people.

prejudice will decrease when two conditions are met: both groups are of equal status and both share a common goal.

when perceivers respond to members of a target group who disconfirm their stereotypes by seeing them as exceptions to the rule and placing them in a separate subcategory apart from members who confirm the stereotype.

No. Altruism: there is a risk or some cost, i.e. saving someone drowning, fire, etc., Social Behavior: general helping/opening the door for someone, giving someone a ride to school, etc.)

ppl dropped papers, someone in the street…helping them…?

(i.e. size of town/city, is the person in a hurry? Etc.)

phenomenon that each bystander’s sense of responsibility to help decrease as the number of witnesses increases.

(person has to be aware/interpret a situation as one where someone needs help, they have to be able to help, etc.)

Freebies:

#31. D. all of the above (ways in which anger can be dealt with to reduce aggression)

#40. B. secure (the ____ attachment style is correlated with having intimate and most satisfying intimate relationship)

remembering a past traumatic experience that is objectionably false but nevertheless accepted as true.

GroupProcesses

SPA-3:

·         Own-race bias: people have harder time identifying with other races.

·         People who ID a suspect and express high confidence within 10 seconds are usually correct

·         Polygraph can detect lying/not perfect and often yields inaccurate results

·         Cognitive interview offers promise in improving eyewitness testimony—more research needed

·         Recovered memories may be true, but may be false—could increase by advice of psychotherapist.

·         Juries are most swayed by consistent story told by lawyers

·         Interrogations can produce false confessions/videotape that only shows suspect can be misleading.

·         Jurors with minority views often pressured into conforming to majority. Verdicts = initial feelings of majority of jurors.

·         Deterrence theory holds true, except for murder. Death penalty has shown to increase murder.

·         People are more likely to obey law if they think it’s fair.